2015 AGU Section and Focus Group Awardees and Named Lecturers

On behalf of the leaders and staff of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), we give our heartfelt congratulations to all of this year’s section and focus group awardees and named lecturers.

Listed below are the scientists, in various stages of their careers, who have been selected by AGU sections and focus groups to receive awards in 2015. Also listed are those individuals chosen to present lectures under the annual Bowie Lecture Series as well as the Section and Focus Group Named Lecture Series.

The Bowie Lecture was inaugurated in 1989 to commemorate the fiftieth presentation of the William Bowie Medal, which is named for AGU’s first president and is the highest honor given by AGU. Bowie lecturers in the list below are denoted by asterisks. Named lecturers are designated by sections and focus groups to honor distinguished scientists in their respective fields of science.

We thank all sections and focus groups for giving these recognitions to their well-deserving colleagues. These awardees/lecture recipients represent some of the most innovative minds in their fields. We recognize their continuing meritorious work and service toward the advancement and promotion of discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity.

We look forward to recognizing their achievements at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, to be held 14–18 December in San Francisco, Calif.

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